Books with title My Pets: Real Happenings in My Aviary

Excerpt from My Pets: Real Happenings in My AviaryHE birds that really started me in the serious, and yet amusing task of keeping an aviary, were two little Californian screech owls.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

6 BEAUTIFUL COLOR ARTWORK PICTURES INSIDE AND NUMEROUS BLACK AND WHITE PICTURES. MARSHALL WRITES IN THE FRONT TO HER NUMEROUS FANS STATING THAT THIS BOOK IS A TRUE ONE AND IS OF THEIR WISHES. SHE WROTE THIS FROM HER HEART AS YOU WILL SEE. A WONDERFUL BOOK FROM A LOVER OF ANIMALS. (1861-1947). Born in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia, the daughter of an eminent Baptist minister, and educated in Halifax and for one year in Edinburgh and Orléans, France, Margaret Marshall Saunders returned to teach and write in Halifax. Saunders' forte was writing books for children. After the turn of the century she produced a long list, including the very popular 'Tilda Jane; an orphan in search of a home (1901); Beautiful Joe's paradise; a sequel to Beautiful Joe (1902); The story of the Gravelys; a tale for girls (1903); Alpatok; the story of an Eskimo dog (1906); and My pets; real happenings in my aviary (1908), a series of essays still admired by naturalists. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

I dedicate this hook to those of my boy and girl friends who are never satisfied with a story unless it is entirely true. While the most of my stories are partly true, I have never therefore written one that is entirely and wholly true in every particular. The story of my aviary and the pets in it is taken from my diaries, and many of the hirds are still living and moving and having their being, and are always glad to see any girls and boys who call on them, if they do not come in too great numbers at one time. Marshall Saunders. CONTENTS The Story of Two Owls The Owls Start on Their travels .... A Reign OF Robins A Naughty Mockingbird ........ A Robin and Sparrow Friendship .... Dixie and Tardy Rabbits and Guineapigs My Pet Rats Farewell to the Rats and Rabbits ... A Bird from Over the Sea Good-bye to the Guineapigs First Acquaintance WITH Pigeons The Homing Pigeon the King of Birds Princess Sukey Pigeons and Hawks Sukey and Her Foster pigeon Minnie Post-office My First Canaries Raising Young Birds Canary Characteristics Little Peters Crested Cardinals Cardinal Babies Sparrows and Swallows A Mother Carey's Chicken Sweet-sweet and the Saint of the Aviary A Hummingbird and Native and Foreign Finches Japanese Robins and a Bobolink ....

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... could protect the chickens, for when the hawk was coming, the little wild birds that were fed about the farmhouse would scurry through the air in a hurried, unnatural way. If we noticed them, and called to the chickens, the petted things would run for shelter. Not so the pigeons. They never hurried to their lofts. When they saw a hawk they rose swiftly in the air and flew madly round and round. The hawk would get the poor flyers, and any that were handicapped, except Crippie and Owlie. He never got them, and I wondered at it. He carried off a fine, red jacobin that I had sent up from Halifax, hoping Sukey would be friendly with him. She beat him so persistently that I put him out with the others. He looked very handsome sitting up aloft with his red hood about his head, but one day he disappeared, and later I found a heap of his pretty feathers at the foot of a pine tree where the hawk had carried him to tear him to pieces. I lost twenty pigeons, but only three chickens. It was very pathetic to see those three disappearing. On one occasion I was close by. The hawk seemed to fall like a bullet from a clear sky. He seized the poor little unfortunate and bore it off by the head, its legs dangling helplessly in the air. These hawks were not large ones, and at a little distance looked like one of my big homers. After a time we were not so much troubled by them. I had tried to get rid of them by keeping guineahens, for the country people round about said that no hawk will approach a farm where a guineahen is kept. I thought I would try the experiment, and bought a fine pair of guineahens that never wandered, as many of the tribe do. The hawks did not mind them at all, and swooped down on the chickens when they were close by. Our best friends...

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Excerpt from My Pets: Real Happenings in My AviaryHE birds that really started me in the serious, and yet amusing task of keeping an aviary, were two little Californian screech owls.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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